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[House.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Feb.  6,  1865.— Ordered 
to  be  laid  on  the  table  and  printed. 

[Presented  by  Mr.  Baldwin.] 


RESOLUTIONS 

Adopted  by  the  Staunton  Artillery  ^-February  Is^,  1865. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Staunton  Artillery,  held  at  their  camp  near 
Fishersville,  on  the  1st  of  February,  1865,  Captain  A.  W.  Garber 
was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Sergeant  A.  S.  Spitzer  was  appointed 
Secretary. 

Lieutenant  A.  H.  Fultz  offered  the  following  preamble  and  resolu- 
tions, which  were  unanimously  adopted : 

AVe  are  fighting  for  our  libert}'  I  The  despondency  talked  of 
does  not  exist  in  the  army.  The  same  spirit  animates  us  now  which 
inspired  us  in  1861.  We  are  determined  never  to  acquiesce  in  any 
accommodation  short  of  the  independence  of  our  Confederacy. 
We  believe  this  to  be  the  spirit  of  the  whole  army,  and  we  appeal 
to  the  people  of  our  loved  homes  to  respond  to  it ;  especially,  we 
demand  it  of  our  Congress.     We  do  therefore 

Resolve  1st.  W^e  know  no  such  word  as  fail  in  this  contest. 

2d.  We  will  never  consent  to  a???/  peace  which  does  not  assure 
our  independence  and  liberty. 

3d.  We  ask  our  Representatives  in  Congress  to  present  our  hum- 
ble views,  and  to  pledge  us  to  stand  by  the  glorious  South  till  the 
last  man  has  shed  his  last  drop  of  blood. 

On  motion  of  Sergeant  John  Butler, 

liesolved.  That  our  hearts  have  been  cheered,  and  our  hands 
strengthened,  by  the  evidence  of  kind  feelings  aSbrded  us  by  our 
fellow-countrymen  and  fair  country-women  in  the  bountiful  repast 
provided  for  us  on  the  28th  instant,  and  we  now  renew  our  pledge, 
given  nearly  four  years  since,  to  defend  their  liberties  and  ours,  to 
the  bitter  end. 

A.  W.  GARBER,  Chairman. 

A.  S.  Spitzer,  Secretary. 


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